phishing
Know your enemy: Defining the new taxonomy of malicious emails
Just as it is the default tool for most businesses, email’s capacity for rapid, mass communication has made it a favourite instrument of criminals. As a result, malicious …
Cybercrime can come in any shape or size, and not always the form you’d expect
Cyberespionage is now the most common type of attack seen in manufacturing, the public sector and now education, warns the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report. Much …
Phishing attacks responsible for three-quarters of all malware
With phishing now widely used as a mechanism for distributing ransomware, a new NTT Security reveals that 77% of all detected ransomware globally was in four main sectors – …
Flashlight app on Google Play delivered highly adaptable banking Trojan
A modified version of the Charger mobile ransomware has been downloaded from Google Play by up to 5,000 users. This new variant of the malware was shipped inside a …
Why businesses should care about identity theft
Identity theft is a type of fraud that’s directed squarely against individuals, but to believe that businesses don’t suffer any consequences or costs associated …
“iCloud Mail” phishing emails doing rounds
The latest email phishing campaign targeting Apple users is aimed at gathering as much information as possible from unfortunate victims. The email, made to look like it comes …
Tax season security tips: Protect yourself from cybercrime
Between December 2016 and February 2017, IBM X-Force researchers saw a 6,000 percent increase in tax-related spam emails. The researchers see this increase and other factors …
Fake DVLA SMS tricking UK residents into sharing payment card info
SMS messages made to look like they are coming from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are being flung at UK residents, in an attempt to trick them into sharing …
Phishers offer WoW players free in-game pets
Avid World of Warcraft players are being targeted with phishing emails seemingly coming from Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer behind the popular multiplayer …
Lithuanian arrested for $100 million BEC scams
Criminal charges were announced against Evaldas Rimasauskas for orchestrating a fraudulent business email compromise (BEC) scheme that induced two U.S.-based Internet …
Even a cybersecurity firm can fall for a W-2 phishing scam
US Tax Day (April 18) is quickly approaching, and scammers are hard at work to get what they can before the set tax season deadline. The US IRS is warning about last-minute …
Organizations still vulnerable to brute force attacks
While increases in malware are clearly a major threat to both enterprises and service providers, network complexity is creating its own vulnerability, according to Ixia. The …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- The modern CISO is a cornerstone of organizational success
- Best practices for ensuring a secure browsing environment
- Kata Containers: Open-source container runtime, building lightweight VMs
- Why software is the key to FI risk management
- Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: December 2024